Vimeo is officially launching a new default HTML 5 player that's 50 percent faster than the the flash module that came before. In fact, you may have already been using it for months as the service has been slowly rolling it out to users. Sneaky, sneaky! Pretty much the only way you'll use the oldness is on Facebook… »1/07/14 9:00am 1/07/14 9:00am

The Wall Street Journal expects the next generation of YouTube to begin next week with Channels, a handful of hubs focused around a particular theme that feature hours of original, studio-produced programming. »10/27/11 8:58am 10/27/11 8:58am

From the way people are already drooling over tonight's tweetable, social media-savvy Super Bowl ads, you would be forgiven for thinking that the famed Lombardi Trophy will be awarded to an ad agency, instead of the usual football-playing recipient. »2/06/11 12:00pm 2/06/11 12:00pm

To promote online game Mafia Wars Las Vegas, game developer Zynga hired Snoop Dogg to blow up a 4-ton armored truck in the Nevada desert, while it was live-streamed to Ustream. It pulled in more viewers than TV broadcasts attract. »8/23/10 6:20pm 8/23/10 6:20pm

Sticking a couple big ones up Adobe's way, Vimeo's embeddable Universal Player allows for playback of Vimeo videos on iPads and other non-Flash-supporting devices, using HTML5—but also detects other supported video formats, playing in Flash or native too. »8/17/10 9:00am 8/17/10 9:00am

With the release of the iPad, among other things, HTML5's been pitted against Flash as the savior of web video. It might be! (Or not!) Either way, a crucial arguing point is that it's more efficient. So, uh, is it? »3/10/10 1:35pm 3/10/10 1:35pm

Productivity is dead, the
internet is going to explode »10/17/08 11:30am 10/17/08 11:30am. According to ComScore's August 2008 search engine rankings, YouTube is now the number two search engine in the world, surpassing Yahoo. YouTube fetched over 2.6 billion search queries that month, trumping Yahoo's 2.4 billion—though Google itself still reigns…

The poor kids at Joost—and their partners at Viacom—thought the
future of TV on the computer »10/13/08 9:00pm 10/13/08 9:00pm would be a discrete app that blended a slick TV emulator with internets! power. They were wrong, : It's all about the browser. So that's where . Its Flash-based player officially launches full-throttle tonight. The early word…

Vudu has just been bumped to version 1.5, and the headlining feature should make its way to every video rental setup: Extensions! If you only get halfway through No Country for Old Men (or any other flick) before the 24-hour window is up, you can extend the rental period for a discounted price, $2 off HD movies and a… »5/28/08 7:30pm 5/28/08 7:30pm

At Netflix Investor Day, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed their timeline for the end of the rental-by-mail biz, and why they're digging so hard into digital distribution: It "will probably peak in the next five years." Taken more broadly, it's more or less predicting that the real end of physical media is in T minus… »5/28/08 4:10pm 5/28/08 4:10pm